221 pages : 16 cm

"Produced in association with the Scottish Tartans, this [book] focuses on the history of the world famous Scottish tartan. [It includes] over 100 clans presented with their tartan, crest, motto and Gaelic clan name; the history of tartan and how it plays its part in the traditional national dress."--Book flap

First edition published as Collins little book of clans and tartans. Glasgow : HarperCollins, 2014

Published in association with The Scottish Tartans Authority

Sub-title from book cover

Includes index

The history of tartan -- Clan names and histories (Anderson ; Armstrong ; Baird ; Barclay ; Brodie ; Bruce ; Buchanan ; Cameron ; Campbell ; Campbell of Breadalbane ; Campbell of Cawdor ; Chisholm ; Clan Chattan ; Colquhoun ; Cumming ; Cunningham ; Davidson ; Douglas ; Drummond ; Duncan ; Elliot ; Erskine ; Farquharson ; Fergus(s)on ; Fletcher ; Forbes ; Fraser of Lovat ; Gordon ; Gow ; Graham ; Grant ; Gunn ; Hamilton ; Hay ; Henderson ; Innes ; Johnston ; Keith ; Kennedy ; Kerr ; Lamont ; Leslie ; Lindsay ; Livingstone ; Logan ; MacAlister ; MacAndrew ; MacArthur ; MacAulay ; MacBain ; MacBean ; MacCallum ; MacDonald ; MacDonald of Sleat ; MacDonlad of Clanranald ; MacDonnell of Glengarry ; MacDonnell of Keppoch ; MacDougall ; MacDuff ; MacEwen ; MacFarlane ; MacFie ; MacGillivray ; MacGowan ; MacGregor ; MacInnes ; MacIntyre ; MacIver ; Mackay ; MacKenzie ; MacKinnon ; MacKintosh ; MacLachlan ; MacLaine of Lochbuie ; MacLaren ; MacLeod ; MacMillan ; MacNab ; MacNaughton ; MacNeill ; MacNicol ; MacPherson ; MacQuarrie ; MacQueen ; MacRae ; matheson ; Maxwell; Menzies ; Montgomery ; Morrison ; Munro ; Murray ; Napier ; Nicolson ; Ogilvie ; Oliphant and Melville ; Ramsay ; Robertson ; Rose ; Ross ; Scott ; Shaw ; Sinclair ; Skene ; Stewart ; Stewart of Appin ; Sutherland ; Urquhart ; Wallace)

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